THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 74

Consenting to the Raising of Loans of £17,000 and £3,000 by the Mackenzie County Council and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of September, 1938.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Mackenzie County Council being desirous of raising the loans set out in the First Column of the Schedule hereto has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loans:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the said Act, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the raising in New Zealand by the said local authority of the loans set out in the First Column of the said Schedule, up to the respective amounts specified in the Second Column of the said Schedule, and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) The terms for which the said loans or any parts thereof may be raised shall be the respective terms (in years) stated in the Third Column of the said Schedule.

(2) The rates of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loans or any parts thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding the respective rates per centum per annum stated in the Fourth Column of the said Schedule.

(3) The said loans or any parts thereof, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the respective terms as determined in (1) above.

(4) The payment of such instalments shall be made in New Zealand, and no such instalment shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(5) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said respective loans or any parts thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.

(6) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

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SCHEDULE.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/257/5.)

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Varying the Determinations in respect of the Green Island Borough Council’s Loan of £3,500.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of September, 1938.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment therein set out, consent was given to the raising in New Zealand by the Green Island Borough Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) of the sum of three thousand five hundred pounds (£3,500) by a loan to be known as “Drainage and Sewerage Loan, 1937” (hereinafter called “the said loan”):

And whereas the authority conferred by the said Order in Council has not been exercised, and it is expedient to vary certain of the determinations aforesaid in respect of the said loan:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby vary certain of the determinations aforesaid in respect of the said loan by prescribing as follows:—

(1) In lieu of the term of twenty-eight (28) years specified in clause one of the said Order in Council, the term shall be fifteen (15) years.

(2) In lieu of repayment as specified in clause three of the said Order in Council the said loan shall be repaid by annual instalments of principal of not less than two hundred pounds (£200) in each of the first fourteen (14) years of the currency of the said loan and a payment of seven hundred pounds (£700) in the fifteenth year thereof.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/287/11.)

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Suspending the Operations of certain Statutes in connection with the Christchurch Metropolitan Show.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of September, 1938.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Exhibitions Act, 1910 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the holding of a public exhibition of works of industry and art, to be conducted by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association in the Addington Show Buildings, Christchurch, on the tenth and eleventh days of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, and to be known as the Christchurch Metropolitan Show, and doth hereby declare the said exhibition to be an exhibition within the meaning of the said Act, and doth hereby suspend, subject, however, to the conditions set out in the Schedule hereto, all the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, the Factories Act, 1921–22, and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and of all awards and industrial agreements in force under the last-named Act, in so far as such provisions relate to the hours of commencing or ceasing work or to the issue of permits for overtime or extended hours, or to holidays or half-holidays, or to the closing of shops to any person, and so far as such provisions relate to hours of work done or business conducted or service carried out in or upon the premises aforesaid during the period aforesaid by or on behalf of the bodies conducting the said exhibition, or by or on behalf of any exhibitor of works of industry or art at the said exhibition, or by any person employed in or about the said exhibition.

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SCHEDULE.

1. Eight hours shall constitute a day’s work in or about the exhibition and, with the exception set out in clause 2 hereof, such hours shall be worked consecutively.

2. No person shall be employed in or about the exhibition for more than four hours without an interval of at least three-quarters of an hour for a meal.

3. Any person employed during any day in or about the exhibition who is employed on such day in excess of eight hours, or before the hour of 8 a.m., or after the hour of 10.30 p.m. (whether such excess employment is in or about the exhibition or otherwise), shall be paid for such excess employment at not less than one-half as much again as the ordinary rate for the first two hours and at not less than twice the ordinary rate thereafter, and any person employed in or about the exhibition on any day that would, but for the provisions of this Order in Council, have been a whole